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Are we on the verge of a global warming tipping point?
I’ve been playing Rome Total war with the kids … OK, I’ve been playing Rome Total War. For those who don’t know, this is a computer game where you direct the operation of your army against the computer. Each army consists of a number of units, and each Unit has its own level of moral, and if it is attacked too much or sustains too heavy a loss … or sees other units nearby routing, then it will rout.
So, the battle normally starts with two armies in position opposite each other, they then engage, the fighting becomes hand to hand and it becomes very difficult to disengage units and so the battlefield is bogged down. But sooner or later, and quite suddenly, one of the units from one side will start routing, and from then on it is extremely difficult to stop the whole of that army routing resulting in victory. Continue reading
How to Boil a Frog
“The title is based on the premise that if a frog is placed in boiling water it will jump out but, if it is placed in cold water that is slowly heated, it will not perceive the danger and will be cooked to death. The story is often used as a metaphor for the inability of people to react to significant changes that occur gradually. Continue reading
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Tagged boiling frog, climate change, global warming, Saffron walden
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After the drought another "global warming could" story
An American pika feeding on grass in the Canadian Rocky Mountains Image: Wikipedia
Thanks to WUWT, for his Story on “Now its global warming killing Pikas“, obviously the Pikas (some kind of American rat/rabbit) isn’t the story, so much as the almost complete absence lately of these “global warming could … kill the … <name some species whose numbers just happened to have declined> because of <name some speculative link with temperature>”.
Somehow, even if the global warming could story is a bit of a Dodo in evolutionary terms and even if we know that it’s going the same way as the Dodo, somehow, despite the ridiculousness of the species, it does add colour to our lives. So it’s nice to see that at least one endangered species hasn’t quite yet fallen off its perch (which in the case of the Dodo was obviously the ground).
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Alternative Vote vs. First Past the Post
Back in my youth I was a liberal democrat and even stood once as a councillor (gaining 200 votes, or as I put it: doubling the vote). So, I used to be a strong supporter of the alternative vote, because I always felt that the “middle” was squeezed out by people who feared labour or Tories so much that they voted for the opposite party.
I’m now an agnostic on voting, in part because I don’t want to see a party like the present liberal democrats in constant power, in part because I don’t want to see the dirty little deals that our politicians get up to behind our backs. Continue reading
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A view from the other side
For those of us fed up with the lack of press coverage of the many revelations that continue to bulldoze each and every claim of the global warming zealots, perhaps a view of the ecozealot trenches will highlight the fact that even if we still don’t get anything like the press coverage the real facts deserve, if anything, the fall from “press darling” of the other side is far far worse to stomach. So, for those of a strong constitution this article may be worth a read:
Nisbet set out to “assess the performance of the mainstream news media in 2009 and 2010” and concludes in his Executive Summary that “major U.S. news organizations have overwhelmingly portrayed the consensus view on the reality and causes of climate change”
Or in plain English: Continue reading
Global warming Death threats
The chief executive of the Met Office, John Hirst, has revealed that, in common with global warming sceptics such as former children’s TV presenter Johnny Ball, he has received death threats for his stance on climate change.
(Read more: http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/77902,people,news,met-office-boss-gets-death-threats-over-climate-change#ixzz1JtxSXvJ9)
Usually I’d have every sympathy with people who receive death threats, but when it comes to the Met Office, they supposedly provide a life and death service and we have been so let down by the Met Office so many times because of their fixation with global warming rather than the real killer in Scotland: Cold winters.
The real death threat the Scottish people face, is not some nutter writing an email, but a supposedly “official” even “scientific” body like the Met Office who fail to provide the life and death service they are supposed to due to poor politically motivated leadership.
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Global warming must be true, Charles Manson believes in it.
Global warming must be true, Charles Manson believes in it. Killer breaks 20-year silence on 40th anniversary of gruesome Sharon Tate murders.
‘If we don’t change that as rapidly as I’m speaking to you now, if we don’t put the green back on the planet and put the trees back that we’ve butchered, if we don’t go to war against the problem…’ he added, trailing off.
Manson, who described himself to his interviewer as a ‘bad man who shoots people’, brainwashed members of a commune known as The Family into butchering eight people including film director Roman Polanski’s pregnant wife Sharon Tate in July and August 1969.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1378178/Charles-Manson-breaks-20-year-silence-40th-anniversary-gruesome-Sharon-Tate-murders.html#ixzz1Ju1WNezJ
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A climate of apathy
In selling his carbon tax compensation plan last week, Greg Combet told the ABC1’s Lateline: “Australia is not acting alone. We’re not out ahead of the rest of the world. Other countries are taking important steps as well.”
So, it’s a good time to see how the big polluting nations are faring in the battle to price carbon. So far, not so good. Australia in the cold on global warming
The article from ABC continues, Continue reading
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Media interest falls to record low
In 2007 the average number of google hits for a news search for “global warming” was around 20,000 stories. It then steadily declined until just before climategate it was around the 10,000+ news articles.
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Our Carbon

Source: cartoonsbyjosh
Our carbon, which art in the heavens,
Damned be thy name,
Thy power be gone,
Emissions none,
On earth as it is in heaven,
Give us this day our daily rations,
And forgive us our emissions.
As we forgive those who emissions are greater,
For their need is more,
His name is Al Gore,
For his is the kingdom, the power and the glory for ever and ever, Carbon.
Addendum
It’s now four years later and WUWT have highlighted a far better version by Dominic Lawson in the Daily Mail:
Our Gaia, Who art in danger,
Sustainable be thy name,
Thy renewable energy resources come,
Thy Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s will be done
On Earth as it is in the upper atmosphere
Give us this day our daily organic ciabatta
Forgive us our carbon emissions
Though we can’t forgive those multinationals who emit against us
Lead us not into excessive plane travel
Deliver us from genetically modified crops
For thine is the moral high ground
The onshore wind farms and the subsidies
For as long as the taxes can be raised. Amen.
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